The Great Depression

What term describes the practice of purchasing stocks with borrowed money, contributing to the stock market crash of 1929?

• Buying On Margin

• Public Works

• Deficit Spending

• Fireside Chat

What name was given to the makeshift shantytowns that sprung up during the Great Depression?

• Bank Holiday

• Dust Bowl

• Hooverville

• Bonus Army

Which event marked the beginning of the Great Depression by signaling a catastrophic drop in stock prices?

• Hundred Days

• New Deal

• Fireside Chat

• Black Tuesday

What was the series of severe dust storms in the 1930s that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of US and Canadian prairies?

• Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

• National debt

• Bonus Army

Which term refers to Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the Great Depression?

• Deficit Spending

• Bank Holiday

• New Deal

• Public Works

Which of the following was a significant cause of the Great Depression?

• Overproduction and underconsumption

• Increased government spending

• Low tariffs on imported goods

• Decrease in urbanization

On what date did Black Tuesday occur, marking a pivotal moment in the onset of the Great Depression?

• October 29, 1929

• November 11, 1929

• September 4, 1929

• December 25, 1929

What was the immediate effect of Black Tuesday on the American economy?

• Immediate economic growth

• Stabilization of the stock market

• Widespread bank failures

• Increased investment in technology

Who were the Bonus Army, and what were they demanding?

• Veterans seeking immediate payment of a bonus promised for World War I service

• Bankers demanding government bailouts during the Great Depression

• Farmers seeking subsidies to offset the losses during the Dust Bowl

• Unemployed workers demanding jobs from the federal government

In what year did the Bonus Army march on Washington, D.C.?

• 1929

• 1932

• 1935

• 1940